stravaig
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɹəˈveɪɡ/, /stɹəˈvæɡ/
Audio (Southern England) noicon (file) - Rhymes: -eɪɡ, -æɡ
Verb
stravaig (third-person singular simple present stravaigs, present participle stravaiging, simple past and past participle stravaiged)
- (Scotland) to stroll, meander
- 1946, Rebecca West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens”, in A Train of Powder, page 22:
- It is tedious work, training clematis over low posts, so that its beauty does not stravaig up the walls but lies open under the eye; but on the edge of the town many gardeners grew it thus.
- 1964, Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Mary Poppins, spoken by Mary Poppins:
- Michael, stop stravaiging along behind.
Related terms
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strɑˈveɡ/
Verb
stravaig (third-person singular simple present stravaigs, present participle stravaigin, simple past stravaigt, past participle stravaigt)
- to stroll, to roam carelessly
References
- “stravaig, n, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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